Hockey Rambling

According to Elliotte Friedman, Phil Kessel would like to play in 2023-24 and is not concerned about his ironman streak ending. Kessel suited up for just four playoff games during the Golden Knights’ run to the Stanley Cup, but playoff games don’t count in an ironman streak. However, his playoff deployment should probably foreshadow the [...]

Winger Carl Hagelin suffered an eye injury late in the 2021-22 season and missed the entire 2022-23 season as a result. He announced on Wednesday that he would be retiring from hockey as a result of the injury. The 35-year-old ends his NHL career with 110 goals and 296 points in 713 games, winning a [...]

Yesterday was my one annual fantasy football draft. It’s always fun to get a different draft perspective, especially in a sport that I don’t know as well as hockey. It forces a bit more thought on the strategy of which positions to target when, and how to take advantage of inefficiencies when you don’t know [...]

For most of the last decade, the Edmonton Oilers have been trying to get some scoring depth and they may have added some by bringing in Sam Gagner on a professional tryout. The 34-year-old was Edmonton’s sixth overall pick in 2007 and he had some good years, but never cracked 50 points. He played a [...]

The 18th annual Fantasy Guide was last updated on Friday, just with some player tryout notes. News will pick up very soon, and I also have a few columns to get in. But the big news was the release of my Goalie Post app. Oh yes, it’s here. And it’s a beauty. Besides a facelift [...]

There are some new stats for goalies on Frozen Tools: Quality Weeks, Really Bad Weeks, and Star Weeks. If they sound familiar, they are simply the Quality Starts and Really Bad Starts stats expanded to a week. They are the brainchild of Ryan Brudner, who you might know as @fantasycheddar on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1693998288645788078 By the [...]

Finding content to write about during the dead of summer is a real challenge, so I might as well try to kill two birds with one stone. That’s why I’m practicing my skills by participating in mock drafts and writing about them afterward. Hopefully it helps you in some way with your draft while covering [...]

Yesterday, I started a series of Ramblings reviewing some players I am targeting as good values in early (pre-camp) fantasy hockey drafts. The lack of information in the NHL offseason can lead to good drafting opportunities, though they do carry risk because of that lack of information. It is a double-edged sword that can make [...]

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Draft dates are starting to be set, and it may feel today like we’re in the middle of the dog days of summer, but we’re less than 20 days away from players reporting for physical tests, and then they’re on the ice the next day. At that point the news, rumours, and speculation are all [...]